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CVE-2024-12495: Bootstrap Blocks for WP Editor v2 <= 2.5.0 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-01-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Bootstrap Blocks for WP Editor v2 plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the 'gtb-bootstrap/column' block in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.0 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers, with Contributor-level access and above, to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

Affected products

• virgial Bootstrap Blocks for WP Editor v2: through 2.5.0

References

• https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset?sfp_email=&sfph_mail=&reponame=&old=3213432%40wp-editor-bootstrap-blocks&new=3213432%40wp-editor-bootstrap-blocks&sfp_email=&sfph_mail=#file33
• https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/4e9e9afc-89a0-444d-ad5b-975e0f3c19d5?source=cve

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